Pot news....
Nov. 12th, 2002 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheSo, I get online for the first time in four days, and here's one of the top Yahoo headlines of the morning:
British Study Warns of Health Danger of Cannabis
which starts out like this:
My first question was, "Who is the BLF? What's their political stance?" But then I decided to give the organization the benefit of the doubt and that their findings came from no particular political position. So then I jumped onto the message boards, because misery loves company. I wanted to see what other smokers were saying.
I flipped to the first page of messages and find two that were recommended by several people. One of them was cogently argued; the author admitted that yes, cannabis does contain more carcinogens than tobacco, but then offered a link that showed that THC inhibits the enzyme that allows those carcinogens into lung cells in the first place. No entry into the cell, no cancer. (Funnily enough, tobacco contains something(s) that activate the enzyme.)
So... *lights up* All in all, it's been a good wake-and-bake.
British Study Warns of Health Danger of Cannabis
which starts out like this:
Smoking three pure cannabis joints is as bad for your lungs as smoking 20 normal cigarettes and marijuana is more dangerous now than it was in the 1960s, British researchers said on Monday.
In what it described as a shocking new report, the British Lung Foundation (BLF) said tar from cannabis cigarettes contained 50% more carcinogens--the agents that produce cancer--than tobacco.
"Three cannabis joints a day cause the same damage to the lining of the airways as 20 cigarettes," it said in a statement.
My first question was, "Who is the BLF? What's their political stance?" But then I decided to give the organization the benefit of the doubt and that their findings came from no particular political position. So then I jumped onto the message boards, because misery loves company. I wanted to see what other smokers were saying.
I flipped to the first page of messages and find two that were recommended by several people. One of them was cogently argued; the author admitted that yes, cannabis does contain more carcinogens than tobacco, but then offered a link that showed that THC inhibits the enzyme that allows those carcinogens into lung cells in the first place. No entry into the cell, no cancer. (Funnily enough, tobacco contains something(s) that activate the enzyme.)
So... *lights up* All in all, it's been a good wake-and-bake.